Hope is a beautiful lie and it requires talent to create it for others.

When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone’s cup of tea and He...

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

Almost everything a person thinks is a lie, and an assault against the natural soul.

I’m going, and don’t you dare try to stop me.”I ran through the door, willing myself to make it downstairs before I started to cry.

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.

I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this … I still love scribbling the word – WRITER – any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write...

A lie makes up 3/4ths of life.

When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.

A lie by choice will force you to a thousand unavoidable lies.

What is the truth?’ he asked. ‘We place faith in ourselves,’ replied Altaïr (…) ‘We see the world as it really is, and hope that one day all mankind might see the same.’‘What is the...

Truth is the biggest lie.

The best lies were always mixed with truth.

Okay, I’ve lied to him. But you saw how jealous he gets. It makes me feel like I have to. And I shouldn’t defend my right to be friends with another guy.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God. While I have life, as long as I draw breath, I shall deny with all my strength, and hate with...

Hate will only eat the truth, then spit out a lie.

Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don’t like to lie to myself.

Are you okay, man?””Yeah, I’m good.”It’s a lie. I wonder if I will ever be good again.

I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that’s such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.

The walls were coming down around me, but still, I couldn’t imagine telling the truth. Not now. It was too late. How can I tell Mom and Dad what we’d done? It would ruin everything....

Truth with love is a lie

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

Perception is the lie that we convince ourselves exists

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

[the only acting advice he would give] What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

Some promises are lies we never meant to tell.

But there’s so much that was a lie, it’s hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

An author never lies. We do, however tend to speak in a fictional prose.

There’s that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they’re doing it with such panache and conviction…no, it’s because they say exactly what you want to hear, at...

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

You lying sneak.””All this time pretending to be a wolfblood’s best friend, then spying on us.””You don’t understand. I did it to protect ya. When you secret gets out, i’ll have the evidence to prove...

I think the lie we’ve told people in the marketplace is that a degree gets you a job. A degree doesn’t get you a job. What gets you a job is the ability to carry...

If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like that inside, does it? That is a fundamental lie we...

I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story...

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place. You can hide Truth under a doormat, but eventually the mat will rise very high with Time — forcing it...

When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.

This planet is a broken bone that didn’t set right, a hundred pieces of crystal glued together. We’ve been shattered and reconstructed, told to make an effort every single day to pretend we still function...

Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we all have created. But that is just another convenient lie. Because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is...

spaceship” was parked in the courtyard of the cult training centre. An insider had been instructed that if the survivor began to remember the ritual abuse, she was to make her remember the alien abduction,...

I find this wave of super-skinny women scary. I’m not going to lie to you, I’ve got to drag myself down to the gym like everybody else. But I look at the red carpet sometimes...

A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the...

Some words are sweet but unprotifable! Some are bitter but important. First weigh your words on the counter of integrity and speak not only because your words are sweet, but because they contain the truth!

My life story is 75% true. But which quarter is a lie? Better check my pants pockets—the one the politician’s wearing.

Sako, jog nutylėta tiesa taip pat gali būti melas.

There are enough reasons to live your life happily rather than sacrificing it for a lie.